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The cerebellum, located at the base of the brain, is responsible for coordinating voluntary movements, maintaining posture, balance, and equilibrium, as well as refining motor movements to be smooth and precise. It also plays a role in some cognitive functions, such as attention and language processing.
What Are the Functions of the Cerebellum? The cerebellum receives information from other regions of the brain and nervous system including the brain stem, spinal cord, and cerebrum. This incoming information is then used by the cerebellum to coordinate and control voluntary movements.
Historically, the cerebellum's role in cognition has been a matter of debate. Most people in the fields of neurology and mental health in particular have been taught that the cerebellum functions primarily as a co-processor of movement in concert with the cortex and basal ganglia.
The cerebellum is a fist-size structure tucked below the cerebral cortex—the part of the brain that we typically attribute to higher-order cognitive processes, including consciousness, language, and memory.
Here, we highlight various aspects of cerebellar nonmotor functions. We focus on the integrated network involving the cerebellum in cognitive, affective, and social functions, challenging the notion of separate modules for these processes.
The hypothesis that pattern detection and prediction represent a specific role in cerebellar function in perception is appealing, and compelling data from various sources support the sequence detection model of impaired cerebellar perception.
These highlighted cerebellar cortical and subcortical networks are the anatomical clues for the role of the cerebellum in EES functions in adult humans. Taken together, the reported findings suggest that the role of the cerebellum in EES function changes across the lifespan.